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The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
SABnzbd+: SABnzbd+ is a cross-platform binary newsreader. It makes downloading from Usenet easy by automating the whole thing. You give it an NZB file or an RSS feed, it does the rest. Has a web-browser based UI and an API for 3rd-party apps. Ideal for servers too.
Make-A-PBI: The [...]

Ken Moore has just announced that a new PBI for Firefox 5.0 with proper flash implementation has just been re-released. As an added bonus, it is also about 1/2 the size of the previous (non-flash-enabled) 5.0 attempt. Let us know if you experience any other bugs with this version of Firefox.

A problem has been found with the FreeBSD port of Firefox 5. Since PBIs are based on FreeBSD ports, this means that you should hold off on installing the Firefox 5 PBI or upgrading to Firefox 5 in Software Manager. Thanks to all of the testers who provided information about the bug and to Ken Moore for submitting a patch (Read more...)

The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
Firefox 5: Firefox is an award winning, free, open-source web browser for many platforms and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features.
Vavoom: Vavoom is a source port based on sources of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and a littl [...]

The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
MultiGet: MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Linux/Unix/BSDs/Windows. It supports the http/ftp protocol which covers most user’s requirements. It supports resume download if server side have resume feature, and if you like, you can reconfig the thread number withou [...]

The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
Truecrypt: Truecrypt is an open source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Thanks to Jesse Smith for creating this module and to drulavigne for requesting it.

The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
Qsynth: Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps [...]

The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
Mupen64: Mupen64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator with all necessary sound and graphics plugins.
Denemo: Denemo is a GPL music notation editor for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and MS Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, tran [...]

The following PBIs are now available from Software Manager:
Mumble: Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.
Imagination: Imagination is a simple DVD slide show maker. It uses sox and ffmpeg to create slide shows containing images and audio tracks.
QuickSynergy: QuickSyne [...]

The latest 9.0 testing snapshot contains a configuration script that automatically initializes the MythTV backend so the front-end is ready to use. We’re looking for testers, preferably with a video capture card, to test the setup on as many systems as possible and to provide information for the 9.0 PC-BSD Users Guide.
A documentation page ha [...]

The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
Cinepaint: CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry — used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, H [...]

The next PC-BSD 9-CURRENT snapshot is now available for download.
This snapshot includes a lot of fixes and changes, notably:
Overhauled Life-Preserver backup utility
Fixes to AppCafe browser navigation
Improvements to system installer pages, such as disk / user setup
Improved tray notifier for available updates
New “Welcome” program to int [...]

The next PC-BSD 9-CURRENT snapshot is now available for download.
This snapshot includes a lot of fixes and changes, notably:
Overhauled Life-Preserver backup utility
Fixes to AppCafe browser navigation
Improvements to system installer pages, such as disk / user setup
Improved tray notifier for available updates
New “Welcome” program to int [...]

If you’ve been to the PC-BSD website this week, you will have noticed that it has a shiny new look. Besides being pretty, some new features were added during the redesign:
there is a new menu system for organizing content
the web backend has been updated
you can now chat on the #pcbsd IRC channel from your web browser (no (Read more...)

If you’ve been to the PC-BSD website this week, you will have noticed that it has a shiny new look. Besides being pretty, some new features were added during the redesign:
there is a new menu system for organizing content
the web backend has been updated
you can now chat on the #pcbsd IRC channel from your web browser (no (Read more...)

Earlier this year, iXsystems and the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored Bjoern Zeeb (a FreeBSD committer and recipient of the Itojun Service Award for his contributions to IPv6) to improve FreeBSD’s implementation of IPv6. That work included the creation of IPv6-only testing versions of both FreeBSD and PC-BSD in time for World IPv6 Day. As far as [...]

Kris has written an article “Installing FreeBSD with pc-sysinstall” which has been published on pages 26–28 in the June issue of BSD Mag. You can download that issue for free from here. From the introduction:
Several months ago, the PC-SYSINSTALL system (the installer for PC-BSD 8.0 and higher) was merged into FreeBSD CURRENT, in preparation [...]

Kris has written an article “Installing FreeBSD with pc-sysinstall” which has been published on pages 26–28 in the June issue of BSD Mag. You can download that issue for free from here. From the introduction:
Several months ago, the PC-SYSINSTALL system (the installer for PC-BSD 8.0 and higher) was merged into FreeBSD CURRENT, in preparation [...]